AI chatbots beat search engines at spotting foreign propaganda, NPR test finds
NPR and NewsGuard posed 30 propaganda-based questions to six chatbots and four search engines, and the chatbots handled them better.
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New York Post launches Hamilton AI chatbot in effort to retain readers
The New York Post is rolling out an AI personalization suite named Hamilton, built on Google Cloud, across its Android and iOS apps.
Apple weighs nine-figure budget to pay publishers for news in Siri AI
Apple has approached news publishers about a pay-per-use compensation plan for Siri AI, with a reported budget starting at $100 million.
Why AI content labels keep failing the people who need them most
The Emily Hart case reveals a gap between what platforms promise on AI transparency and what users encounter in their feeds.
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A columnist asked Gemini to write his column. The result was good, and that’s the problem
Neil Steinberg’s annual AI column experiment found Gemini 3.0 nailing his voice while casually inventing a scene that never happened.
Siri-Gemini partnership lets Apple, Google fend off upstart rivals
But the partnership could raise fresh antitrust questions.
Google’s AI recovery: The comeback of the content gatekeeper
After a shaky start on AI, Google has stabilized its position and reminded the market of its power and resources. What does that mean for media distribution?
OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 following internal ‘code red’ scramble
The update claims to outperform human professionals on 70% of knowledge work tasks while completing them 11 times faster.